[Meta Thread] Pokerole Mystery Dungeon: Primal Shadows

[Lord Windos]

Reminder that the only NPCs with you currently are the members of Team Night Wardens, Hoopa, and Gallade.  Everyone else is currently fighting Sandaconda, so it's just you vs Landorus for the time being.

Huh. Missed that detail. That leaves us even more disempowered against the Big Boss of the Genies, but we do at least have Gallade to even the scales. A Master Rank Explorer like him is probably worth a few Teams and assorted mons by himself, if we can back him up properly!

That should be a plan to consider, @Spiritmon , @Mikaruge108 , @PhantomUnderYourDesk , and @no one - just creating openings for Gallade to catch his breath and pound away at Lando, or exploit the hell out of what haymakers he has to wield against them. Sure, it's a bit passive and puts our PCs at a bigger risk, but that NPC pretty much trumps our individual character's own Dice Pools and probably has some nasty tricks beyond his Moveset, assuming that Lando's Barrier isn't totally impervious to non-Human attempts to shatter it or needs that special Human touch to overcome it. Even if that be the case then just have Gallade draw aggros and create openings for us to destroy the barrier ourselves and slam the Therian, occasionally dodging behind Cover or Scaling it to avoid AoEs and Spread Move whammies. Hell, Gallade might have Lucky Chant or Heal Pulse to prevent Bad Dice Luck from getting to many chances to screw us over, so Support Gallade could be helpful if convinced to go that route. What do you think, mates?

Also, Mika, thanks for listing out Their Moveset. Fissure , EQ  , and Bulldoze are right nasty to be sure, but don't discount his other options now. Stone Edge is LETHAL Damage that could outright kill one of our PCs if a Roll goes sour (Revivers only take care of Fainting, not outright Resurrection I think....) , Sandstorm is attrition + potentially a way for him to power up via PDs or hidden Abilities, Rock Slide could Flinch a massive portion of our Team, and Outrage is one of the few Spammable Moves in Dragonstrike's Version of Pokerole (IE: Lando can use it multiple times in a Single Round) with MASSIVE BP to go behind it that no even Platina can tank with Resistance. This guy is just plain dangerous no matter what he's capable of, high or low end, high or low lethality, so any Orders made will probably have to have contingencies baked in to avoid or mitigate the BS he can output (such as dodging, or Clashing if you're feeling particularly ballsy) unless we want to do an All Out Offensive with Gallade or simply go 'Fuck It' and Summon the Hate Genie upon Lando's arse and (try) to take of the chaos accordingly.

In terms of Testing Lando's capabilities, I'll get Platina to be the lab rat with a Dragon Rage (Special Attack and Fixed Damage) as her First Action or try to pull aggro onto her with a botched Diplomacy Roll, and see if she can dodge his Ground Moves (or bait out a Smack Down). If I do the former, everyone else should make contingency Orders based on the outcome of using Special Attack Damage on Lando if it works, doesn't, or something WIERD happens. Second Action will be Steel Wing to determine if Physical Attack can work, and lastly I'd go with Magnet Bomb if hard and fast projectiles can pierce the Shields. Again, plain out any Actions accordingly, if y'all can do upwards of 2-3 Actions a Round safely.

Phantom, what Items does Kee have on hand that can potentially be of help? Just want to confirm what resources we have to that effect, if any.

No one, who is exactly in your Team again, and do you have their Movesets on hand? Knowing what they can do against Lando and for the whole group is naturally a good info we can all pull from!

Dragonstrike, can Kogeki use his Quick Attack Combo to sprint from cover to cover or up the pillars themselves? Having that kind of mobility could be an opportunity to throw some bonus dice Kogeki's way, if he can find a way to utilize his ninja training and come up a plan robust or clever enough to lead Lando around if he wants to be the one to try and pull aggro.

Lastly everyone, we need to review the previous Genie Battles and comb them over for aaaallll the details we can and make notes about them to share. They were basically the prep version of THIS fight we're about to get into, so there is a strong likelihood we can applied what we learnt and succeeded with in those Boss Fights against Lando to a degree. We already know Humans have an edge against these Legends and that SE Damage/Piercing Damage like Sacred Sword has an easier go at destroying those Barriers, as well as Meta Knowledge that Gallade can't take Lando solo and therefore his capabilities alone need some backup against them, so those are some good starting points to go off there.